The Louisiana Department of Health says a Claiborne Parish resident has been infected with a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Lake Claiborne. The brain eating amoeba lives in warm lakes and it can cause a deadly brain infection when water containing amoeba rushes up the nose and reaches the brain. State health officials urge the public that if you go swimming in  warm freshwater, limit the amount of water that goes up your nose.

Burn bans are now in effect in 19 parishes…

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Louisiana Mid Continent Oil and Gas Association President Tommy Faucheux is hailing the latest offshore lease sale a success as 12 companies submitted 69 bids totaling almost 100-million dollars….

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Faucheux says they will continue advocating for federal policies that encourage increased domestic energy production and capital investment in the Gulf of America.

Louisiana’s long-standing “Move Over Law” has been expanded. The Move Over Law requires motorists to merge into the left lane on four-lane roads when there is an emergency vehicle stopped on the shoulder. The law has been expanded to include all types of vehicles, including passenger vehicles. State Police Master Trooper Casey Wallace….

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